Halloween Spooktacular 2016 – Lights Out!: ‘Valse Triste’
Oct 29, 2016
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Arch Oboler is certainly a go to name when it came to producing excellent horror/suspense shows. Lights Out! is surely my favorite Oboler creation and our
Arch Oboler is certainly a go to name when it came to producing excellent horror/suspense shows. Lights Out! is surely my favorite Oboler creation and our
Tonight’s Spooktacular is The Devil Doctor. There’s loads going on in this tale of witchcraft, black masses, and a return from beyond the grave. The Devil Doctor aired January 8th, 1934.
CBS Radio Mystery Theater adapted quite a few Edgar Allan Poe stories over the years and one of the more interesting was The Tell-Tale Heart.
A father comes home with his new bride, much to the surprise and disgust of his teenage daughter. The girl then begins to plot a multitude of ways to do away with her new stepmom.
What to do when a common housefly isn’t large enough to wear a collar or take for a walk around the block like most pets? Find a way to grow a giant fly of course!
While not really of a supernatural nature, The Whole Town’s Sleeping is still an excellent tale where the tension builds as the story progresses.
In The Demon Tree, four friends find themselves bored while on holiday in England. To help pass time while they wait for a night stage back to London (and to investigate a story told to them by their innkeeper) the friends go in search of a mysterious tree.
Following an accident outside their home, the Dodge family takes in an injured young woman who then proceeds to intertwine her way into the household. Yet there seems to be more than just a strange twist of fate at work.
I have to sadly say H.P. Lovecraft’s work didn’t see many incarnations on the airwaves during the heyday of radio. Thankfully the well remembered series Suspense did take a run at the Cthulhu Mythos with The Dunwich Horror featuring Ronald Colem
In our latest Spooktacular offering Welles puts in a mighty fine turn as Dracula in an adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic, which aired on July 11th, 1938 as the initial episode of the series.
Tonight’s Spooktacular program features the legendary horror icon Boris Karloff as he takes center stage in a Lights Out presentation.
In the House on Lost Man’s Bluff, car trouble strands a trio of travelers who end up looking for shelter in what appears to be an abandoned house. Then again, maybe the house isn’t as empty as they think.
We’ll get the Spooktacular off and running with a classic episode of CBS Radio Mystery Theater which aired on October 28th, 1974.
We’re going to finish up the Spooktacular with a little more of a lighthearted tale. Well, as lighthearted as you can get when a man
Mercury’s War of the Worlds moves the original H.G. Wells tale from England to the United States but the results remain the same as humanity struggles to survive the Martian onslaught.
